It looks like North Woods is the winner! @jollymama, read slowly. Election Results
As for accessibility, I’m hoping a few Kindle users took advantage of the $1.99 offer on Amazon last month. Sometimes, those are repeated, so I’ll keep my eyes open. If anyone sees a daily deal on the physical book, please post here and/or message @silverlady.
I’ll start a new thread for August. Thanks again, everyone!
I think the form just let me vote even though–as usual–I missed the voting! But I voted for North Woods, anyway, so no need to dispute results. Thanks, @Mary13!
I’m still 9 weeks out on the wait list for the audiobook but if it comes available sooner I’ll try to listen quickly!
I hope it comes in quicker than expected for you. That has happened for me on more than one occasion.
Ok, I’ve put it on hold on our local library and gave my fingers crossed. Will see how kind the fates are to me. There’s an ebook and hardcover book. Will see which one is available 1st.
10 weeks for me 
Hopefully it goes quicker!
My hold says eight weeks, but it will probably show up in two weeks and I’ll read it and forget much of it by August.
What are you reading in the interim?
I am finishing two books for two different IRL book clubs: Vanderbilt - Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe and Long Bright River - Liz Moore. Both wiggle into the three-star range for me.
Waiting to be picked up at the library:
Night Will Find You - Julia Heaberlin. One of the three book under consideration for Gulf Coast Reads 2024, akin to One Book One City in which one and all read the same book during the month of October.
Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros. My daughters and daughter-in-law read this and have already read the second in the series Iron Flame. I want to be able to join in when they discuss the books.
I also have nine more books from the library sitting on a bookshelf in my bedroom. I’m fortunate that my library system allows you to have a book for twelve weeks unless it’s one with a number of holds on it.
@buenavista, yes I left the voting open on purpose to catch latecomers – and thereby leave open the possibility of a massive coup. 
But your vote reinforces the winning tally, so it looks like chaos will not ensue.
I just finished “The Women” by Kristin Hannah for my RL Book Club. Being “of a certain age,” I have many first-hand memories of all the Viet Nam War protests. In looking back, and with a son currently in the military, how the US treated those returning vets was nothing short of horrific; how the country treated women vets was even worse. We had a good friend who died from cancer caused by Agent Orange. A gut-wrenching book, but I’m glad I read it.
I also recently finished “First Lie Wins” by Ashley Elston. Amazingly, it was not for any Book Club! It was an entertaining mystery, a genre I often read between “more serious” Book Club selections.
On the list for Books on the Beach this summer, in addition to the books I mentioned above: “Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride and “Bird Hotel” by Joyce Maynard.
As always, so many books; so little time.
Glad I took advantage of that $1.99 deal month ago thanks @Mary13 !!!
Daughter now in a book club - 
She had their next book selection
Housemaid- by Frieda McFadden
so I read it in three day visit - holy moly - page turner -!!
Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger - wow just wow 
The wren, The Wren - intense book by Anne Enright- would be a good book discussion- but not sure of wide appeal - but another powerful experience
Now reading -
Now is not the time to panic - Kevin Wilson -
Love Kevin Wilson. I really liked both Nothing to See Here (lots to discuss in that one!) and Now is not the Time to Panic. I really should try some of his earlier books. You’ll all be super impressed that my current audiobook is Secrets and Lies by Kevin Kwan (of Crazy Rich Asians fame).
I have Weddings and Lies on hold at the library. I am super impressed that you already have the audiobook.
I am rereading Trader’s Leap the 25th or so book in the Liaden series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller because when I started the latest Ribbon Dance I realized that I really didn’t remember it well enough. The Liaden books started off with stories inspired a bit by Georgette Heyer’s comedies of manners, and a bit by Japanese samarai ideas about honor, set in space and with a certain about of magical powers thrown in. (Healing, telekensis, and a few others thrown in with one or two extra powerful people.) I really enjoy the universe, though some books/series within the series are more interesting than others.
I’m also reading Ancillary Justice which the first of a sci fi series that made a big splash in 2013 when Anne Leckie’s debut novel became the only novel to have won the Hugo, Nebula, and the Arthur C. Clarke awards.
Finally slowly working my way through Historia de una gaviota y del gato que le enseñó a volar (The Story of The Cat Who Taught seagulls To Fly) by Chilean poet and activist Luis Sepulveda as part of my effort to learn Spanish. It’s novella length, intended for children, but the vocabulary is challenging. Stylistically he uses a lot of repetition, so that’s good for language learning!
I’ll be interested in hearing what people think about Secrets and Lies. I read all the Crazy Rich Asian books while DH was doing his sabattical in Hong Kong - the perfect place to read them. (Well Singapore might have been more perfect, but there’s some bits in Hong Kong that we recognized.)
Finally I read the first few pages of Erasure and found it really engaging. We’re going to Vermont for a couple of weeks and hope to read it while I am there. (No internet at the cabin which is a big help!)
It came up really fast for some reason. Just a couple weeks wait. I’m not sure why. And I just noticed apparently it’s called Weddings and Lies not Secrets and Lies though I’m not sure it really matters 
Everything I’ve read recently I do NOT recommend. Mostly for my other book clubs. So I’m going to be quiet yet again.
Many thanks to @Mary13 for continuing to herd cats … umm … lead our book club. I thoroughly enjoy the discussions, whether or not I liked the book. I always look forward to the next one.
Best book club ever!
It’s interesting to see what people don’t recommend, too. Fun to see what people have been reading
Well, here’s what I’ve recently read that I don’t recommend:
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Golden House by Salmon Rushdie
More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez
And Finally by Henry Marsh
The Overstory by Richard Powers
I also read The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, and I do recommend that one. It’s about the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
Here’s another thumbs up for The Great Believers.